Lima bound but no pictures

Wednesday May 21st

Today we headed off for Lima. But I made a horrible discovery, I couldn't find my camera. A quick check of the camp site turned up empty. I had last had it at about 5pm by the pool, and I guss it went AWOL while sitting around in the dark. There were other travellers and staff all around the campsite, so I have no idea what happened. When I went to bed I thought I had put it in my bag earlier that evening, but obviously not.

Interestingly my Israeli shadowers were at the camp site. Not making any accusations but these guys have been following us since the jungle 3 weeks prior. They popped up in 3 locations since. Its not paranoia, but as the saying goes "once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action" (from Goldfinger).

Anyway we headed to Lima, but not before a trip to the Ballestas isands. These are islands that are covered in Bird Shit. Wars have been fought over them for control of the nitrate deposits, and they are very smelly.

We saw a fair bit of wildlife, sealions, bats, loads of birds and even some penguins. But I haev no photos (actually I lost about a weeks worth of photos as I hadn't backed up in a while but I can get some back from others on the trip).

Then it was onto Lima while getting updates on the Champions League final by text. The fact that ManU won for me, plus some people were on their last truck journey before leaving in Lima, meant there was a party athmosphere on the truck, and a lot of drink.

Lima is big, the biggest city I've been in since Bangkok. It is pretty westernised too. We went out for dinner to Miraflores, which is a rich suburb away from the centre where we were staying. But I think the drink on board the truck meant the others couldn't really stay out late, although I was up for it.